The Securities Investors Association of Singapore (SIAS) is launching a research initiative focusing on the corporate governance of listed companies.

The aim is to give investors a snapshot of the corporate governance practices of a company in an easy to understand one page report following Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) principles.

The reports are developed with research from Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics at Singapore Management University (SMU) and is culled from publicly available data.

Each report will show the company's score for their practices and compare the score with those in the industry as well as those of SGX listed companies.